Countries, peoples and languages of the world, sentence 1
Countries are very different in size: Russia is the largest country by area and Canada the second, while Vatican City, inside the city of Rome, is so small that you can walk across it in a quarter of an hour.
Who acts: Countries, Russia, Vatican City, you · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: size, largest country, anthem
This is a sentence of the lesson «Countries, peoples and languages of the world» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Countries, Russia, Vatican City, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 different | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 different | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 different | advmod |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 size | case |
| 6 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 different | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 country | punct |
| 8 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 country | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 country | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 11 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 country | amod |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 size | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 area | case |
| 14 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 country | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Canada | cc |
| 16 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 area | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 second | det |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 country | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 small | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 32 small | mark |
| 21 | Vatican | Vatican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 City | compound |
| 22 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 small | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 City | punct |
| 24 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 26 city | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 city | det |
| 26 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 City | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Rome | case |
| 28 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 city | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 City | punct |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 small | cop |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 small | advmod |
| 32 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 different | advcl |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 walk | mark |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 walk | nsubj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 walk | aux |
| 36 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 small | advcl |
| 37 | across | across | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 walk | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 quarter | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 quarter | det |
| 41 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 walk | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 hour | case |
| 43 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 hour | det |
| 44 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 quarter | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 different | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Countries | size and the largest country | different property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Russia | the largest country | by area and Canada | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | Vatican City inside the city of Rome | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | walk | can | you | anthem | in a quarter of a hour | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across it=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:world:046-countries-peoples-languages.lesson:1.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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